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by runeblaze 1y ago
Yep my phrasing was not the best :X. You might know better ("couple years"). However my anecdotal observation is that the end result is that fintech drifts FP (heavy concurrency + immutability, ledgers and all) than your "ave
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by runeblaze 1y ago
While I agree with the boredom premise (I was also bored!), the practicality of Clojure was also very important. In fact if I were to deploy something to prod today that is FP, then I either use Scala or Clojure. Fintech benefits from concu
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by runeblaze 1y ago
I write from a new grad perspective, but as said, put your well-being and the well-being of those you care about above all. Meanwhile don't beat yourself up if you are young (bonus if you just relocated for work) and spent too much tim
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by runeblaze 2y ago
But jsonnet is Turing complete…?
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by runeblaze 2y ago
To be honest my interviewers couldn’t sound less interested when I told them about my thoughts on Camus' Caligula and my love-hate relationship with Livy's History of Rome when I applied for jobs, same when I applied for PhDs. ---
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by runeblaze 2y ago
> Is Lanczos an example, or the current best option What’s the best (computationally not that more expensive than Lanczos) option? Edit: also some CV researchers write like that (the Netflix writing) — bicubic is like a flag in opencv th
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by runeblaze 2y ago
They are good at (combining well-known, codeforces-style) algorithms; often times I don’t care about the syntax, but I need the algorithm. LLMs can write pseudocode for all I care but they tend to get syntax correct quite often
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Personally reading this thread I just realized that devs encompass so many areas. Requirement for senior engineers working on practical formal methods, real-time systems, Linux-kernel hacking, or those writing CUDA kernels all day are all g
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by runeblaze 2y ago
In the US, note that for many foreign students, PhD is a (in many cases, much faster) pathway to permanent residency compared to your standard PERM/H1B things
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by runeblaze 2y ago
I want to vaguely highlight that they are not that competitive. Headcount is not that great; there is usually a citation/research impact floor; the ivory tower "oh our advisors are friends" thing likely also applies. Resear
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Useful information for HN from the original Google blog-post: > First, the 2018 analysis flagged one particularly large job code (Level 4 Software Engineer) for adjustments. Within this job code, men were flagged for adjustments because
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by runeblaze 2y ago
I am literally guessing at this point — but can they mmap those files? (Or I mean can you shard the files/store the files more efficiently)
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by runeblaze 2y ago
I think we all agree this feature seems broadly of use, and given that presumably a professional full-time 1P team was behind this feature I am gonna use this product over the other implementations
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by runeblaze 2y ago
I mean you can treat it as just a general pseudocode-ish implementation of an O(n) find_max algorithm. Tons of people use Python to illustrate algorithms. (Not to hide your point though -- people please review your LLM-generated code!)
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by runeblaze 2y ago
That’s your H100 and A100’s GPU memory, not too sure but I imagine many AI practitioners would not find that a weird number
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by runeblaze 2y ago
While I am sure the foot soldier quality is important, we ought to put the burden on leadership a bit more. I am not sure AMD had a better talent pool (I don't work in the industry so I don't know!) ten years ago. Culture is predo
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by runeblaze 2y ago
I am sure Intel has enough cash to hire some good talent (like just offer talented people next-level salary at $FAANG), the problem is deeper in the hiring pipeline -- convincing people of the budget and actually scouting and retaining good
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Maths also mean different things. Your average number theorist or algebraic geometer will most likely not touch statistical techniques day-to-day. Reading this Anthropic article was helpful because I am constantly catching up on my statisti
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by runeblaze 2y ago
My limited corporate experience is that you fluff feedback to the less effective leaders so that you can still influence them. The more effective leaders you talk to them directly and team up with them to accomplish great things together. I
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Sometimes I write Rust with Arc and Rc sprinkled everywhere because I just need a dialect of OCaml.
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Smaller companies need to outbid Google for talent, especially if they carry less stability. I imagine there are quite many who went like: leaves Google for great cash package at smaller company/start up -> smaller company goes bell
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by runeblaze 2y ago
For machine learning (un)fortunately, lots of the stack runs on Python. Lots of ceremony was done to circumvent GIL (e.g. PyTorch data loader). “Reasonable performance Python” I imagine is actually something in huge demand for lots of ML sh
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Just to add -- sometimes I use Redis when I don't have a trusted impl of HyperLogLog or sorted set (and I have a vague suspicion that I am going to do IPC later -- so not worth it to wrap my own HLL).
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by runeblaze 2y ago
One thing I disturbingly realized, after I tried corporate life, is how much misogyny and racism hides below polite discussion, and how invisible these things can be even to direct leaders and customers
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback if you are talking about me ;). I frequently get suggested to put more punctuation...
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Trust me when I play minecraft, the moment I realize I don't have inventory sorting installed I quit the game.
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Same here. Also Factorio AFAIK has no good copilot. Sadly the best LLMs are not fine-tuned on Factorio so my productivity takes a massive hit when moving from side projects to Factorio.
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by runeblaze 2y ago
Half jokingly, MrBeast is a decent source of learning other languages given (1) how children friendly the contents are, and (2) how many dubs/subs the videos have. I particularly like the Takeuchi Junko Japanese dub.
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by runeblaze 2y ago
I think we are converging at an opinion. Internal actors can be hard to detect, and honestly there is a reason at places like Google interns are treated with heightened security checks (my guess -- they learned to do so after some years). B
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by runeblaze 2y ago
A lot of ML outfits are equipped with ML experts and people who care about chasing results fast. Security in too many senses of the word is usually an afterthought. Also sort of as you also hinted, you can't exactly lump these top-conf

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